This Santa Claus (Sinterklaas) has a hat that looks like a bishop’s hat. The bishop’s hat is known as a mitre:
This kind of gives Santa Claus a religious undertone that I never knew he had. I decided to ask Google on the originas of Santa Claus:
“Because Santa is the central figure for Christmas in modern America, his basically secular nature says something important about Christmas itself. How can Christmas be essentially Christian when the leading symbol of Christmas is essentially secular? The answer is that it can’t — while Christmas may be a religious holy day for many observant Christians, the Christmas holiday in the broader American culture isn’t religious at all. Christmas in American culture is as secular as Santa Claus: it has some Christian elements and some pre-Christian pagan elements, but most of what makes up Christmas today was…
